Resisting the Party of Misinformation

NINETEEN STATES AND COUNTING have enacted laws making it more difficult to vote. More will probably follow. They have one thing in common; they are controlled, legislatively, by the Republican party. It all began with Trump's big lie that the election was stolen from him, a lie embraced to this day by three fourths of registered Republicans. So much for the credibility of the conservative Republican party; Trump's credibility took flight within hours of his birth. To a person, Republicans claim that by reducing the number of ballot drop boxes in cities, shortening voting hours, reducing the number of polling places, making it illegal to give a cold cup of water to a voter waiting in line for hours on a ninety degree day, they are somehow eliminating fraud from the American electoral process. This argument is rendered fatuous by the verified fact that fraud hardly exists at all in American elections, by the fact that making it more difficult to vote will have no impact on what vanishingly little fraud there is, and, finally, that the real reason the Republicans are so hell bound on making it harder to vote is that basic demographic and election research and statistics reveal that it is the minorities in America, the poor, the black, and brown, who will be most adversely affected by the movement the movement to suppress the vote. The fewer the voters, the less likely Democrats win elections, decades of analysis clearly reveal. Conservative Republican dishonesty does not end there. On several occasions Dr Fauci has testified in Congress. Every time, the Republican committee members try to insult him, inpugn his integrity, and tell lies about the nature of Covid 19, the Biden administration's response to it, and about Dr. Fauci's advice and guidance. Dr. Fauci responds in kind. Having abandoned all hope of reasoning with unreasonable people, Dr. Fauci the other day called Rand Paul, himself a docter, "liar". Any inteligent person who compares the comments made by Rand Paul and Anthony Fauci cannot other than conclude that the former is a maniac, a seriously misguided ideologue, and the later an intelligent, well trained doctor and scientist. America's conservative community, represented by the Repbulican party, is hostile to science, and ignorant of it. They much prefer the superstition of religion, and the false narratives given by conspiracy theories. To this day a majority of conservatives deny the reality of climate change, although they can all see it happening in their own back yards. They fear that by accepting it, they will be forced to conclude that progressive policies to fight climate change must be pursued. In this they are quite correct. We recall that conservative America elected a president who called climate change a "hoax", and whose energy policy consisted of "bring back coal", even though coal is being priced out of the free market, and must be abandoned, to save the world from future (and current) disaster. Interview any conservative Christian supporter of Donald Trump and you will most likely find a person who denies human evolution by natural selection, refuses to embrace cooperatvie economics of sharing of the sort preached by Jesus, and who is willfully ignorant of the massive damage already done to the United Atates by Trump, his lies about election fraud, his attempt to overthrow the government violently, and so much more. Conservatism in America is the probem. The antidote is reason, intelligence, and progressive policies.